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Wednesday, June 30, 2010

Hooray! Peter and Andrea reached their goal of recycling enough cans to finance their $3,800 wedding. What an amazing way to start their marriage.

In so many ways, planning a wedding is not just about the one-day event. It's about figuring out how to collaborate with your partner, how to compromise, how to listen. It's about navigating the rocky territory of balancing community needs and wants with personal preferences. It's about finding creative solutions to difficult problems. It's about coping with stress and constraints.

And the process matters. How we plan our weddings sets precedents that will impact our lives beyond our weddings. I don't mean to say that in a Doom & Gloom way. If planning your wedding sucks, it doesn't mean your life is going to suck. It just means that we should plan our weddings with intention. We should make conscious choices. We should be aware of how the process is just as important as the product.

I remember seeing this on the news and thinking what a fantastic idea that is. Mr. Dear and I actually started to save cans as a supplement, but soon realized that we simply don't drink enough soda to make it worthwhile to buy cans. We're back to being a water, milk, koolaid couple!

Us

We're the kind of people who would rather be outside than in. We drink mostly water. A lot of it. We're the kind of people who put on costumes at Halloween and drive around town delivering brownies (with bows) to friends and random people in the service industry. We cook four nights a week and eat out three. We're passionate about making the world better, and we spend lots of time actually trying to do it.